CVE-2010-1322: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The merge_authdata function in kdc_authdata.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.8.x before 1.8.4 does not properly manage an index into an authorization-data list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash), or possibly obtain sensitive information, spoof authorization, or execute arbitrary code, via a TGS request that triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a request from a Windows Active Directory client.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.8 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only

Published 2010-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.